Pocket History of the Church by D. Jeffrey Bingham

Author:D. Jeffrey Bingham [Bingham, D. Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2002-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

Part 3

Gold

Sovereigns

The Church in

the Protestant

Reformation

In ancient Europe and North Africa many houses of the rich had floors made out of artistically placed small tiles of various colors. These mosaic tiles were cemented into the floor to render a design or a picture of some sort—a scene of wild animals, fish or geometrical shapes. The stones had to be positioned carefully. If you rearranged them, some other design would be produced or there would be some disarray with no design at all. This is what the Reformers felt happened at the end of the Middle Ages: the pieces of the true doctrines of salvation, church and Scripture got mixed up and needed to be sorted out.

Or we could look at church doctrine as a jewel-filled crown in which the Reformers thought some priceless jewels had been replaced by counterfeits and the gold had become tarnished. They needed to shine the gold and authenticate the jewels. Many of the themes we have seen before will appear again.

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